Repair Stories Making a Motorcycle Talk: A Story of Motorcycle Repair From Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work: "Seeing a motorcycle about to leave my shop under its own power, several days after arriving… April 10, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories It’s Important to Have a Back-Up Option I took this photo in Seelampur, after exploring the second-hand electronics market and watching some e-waste processing. In Delhi, I saw fixers turning almost any space into a repair space.… April 7, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Repair Stories Fixing My Daughter’s Voice: An Important Battery Replacement Nate Hanson's 8-year-old daughter, Whitney, has an iPhone 3GS. But she doesn't use it to call her friends or play video games, as you might expect. Rather, for Whitney, the… April 6, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories The Bad Kind of Crunch: A Broken LCD Screen Italian air traffic controller Luca Vetturi closed his laptop and heard a sickening crunch—upon opening it again, he discovered that he had accidentally left an earphone inside. Spider-webbed cracks spread… March 24, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories The Right Tools: Two Nano Battery Replacements Trevor Bugera submitted a story this week about fixing two iPods—his wife's Mini and her friend's Nano. Neither iPod would hold a charge, and the Mini recently started showing the… March 11, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories It’s Alive! Two Broken iBooks Become One Working Computer When Juan Ordonez's elementary-school-aged daughter started clamoring for a computer, he had an idea. Rather than buy her a brand new laptop and pay for all kinds of fancy capabilities… March 10, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories Fixing a Cracked Screen on Break iFixit user ShopperCruz submitted a story this week about how he fixed a broken screen on his iPhone 4S. He explains, "I had cracked my brand new iPhone 4s digitizer… February 19, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories Good Things Come in Pairs: Two Time-Lapse MacBook Repair Videos Funny how people sometimes have the same great idea simultaneously, in two different places. Darwin and Wallace, Wheatstone and Morse, Antz and A Bug's Life… We had our own little… February 9, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories Repair that Matters In Cameroon, there are only 8 motor vehicles per 100 people, which means that the vehicles they have need to work for a lot of people and last a long… February 2, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories Seating a Tire Bead with Fire in Kenya The man squatting on the ground put a little bit of gasoline around the rim, then lit it on fire. The tire then popped into place. January 30, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit